Functional ecology of shrub seedlings after a natural recruitment event at the Nevada Desert FACE facility

Global Change Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 718-728

  Housman, David C ^a   Zitzer, Stephen F ^b,c   Huxman, Travis E ^d   Smith, Stanley D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^c DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambrosia dumosa; Elevated CO2; FACE; Larrea tridentata; Mojave Desert; Seedling survival

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE ENRICHMENT; DESERT; RECRUITMENT; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; SHRUB;

UNITED STATES;

AMBROSIA; AMBROSIA DUMOSA; LARREA; LARREA TRIDENTATA; TRIDENTATA;

EID: 0037983992     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2486.2003.00618.x     Document Type: Article

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